Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:35:15 Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey > > > > wrote: > >> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at > >>> /var/tmp/portag

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
> >> > > I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on gentoo.org. There is > no mention of nvidia needing that. Should I tell the doc team so they can > mention that for others or is my machine a little unique? Since someone > else ran into it on the link you posted, it may be something

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds things up even mo

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at >> /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds >> things up even more ;) > > The same size

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds things up even more ;) The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote: > Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at > /var/tmp/portage is sufficient to compile openoffice. That speeds > things up even more ;) The same size of tmpfs on /tmp also works even if you have only 4GB RAM, as I

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :) -- Joost I went back and looked a

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs>

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: > >> J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :) > > > > -- > > Joost > > I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on g

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Ok, check your kernel config. The following error into google gave me a hint, [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to obtain a shared memory identifier: Function not [ 2082.101] (EE) NVIDIA(0)

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote: > >> Pintér Tibor wrote: > >>> how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have > >>> gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) > >> > >> That's where the erro